It's EV News briefly for Saturday 27th of September. Everything EV in less than five minutes.

We've got time for the full podcast. We'll get you up to speed. Here we go. We kick off with news of Lucid delivering their first Robotaxie vehicles, the engineering vehicles, to a company called Neuro. They'll add their self-driving technology and these vehicles. The gravities, the SUVs will end up in Uber's Robotaxy fleets.

The EU and the US have agreed on a 15% tariff rate, and higher than what the US was paying on cars from the EU, which was 2.5%.

SUVs were 25% before, and so 15%.

Many saying work still to be done, but relieved that something's in the books.

Rivians R2 getting a European rollout, and that will include the UK with right-hand drive,

no date set for it as well. This is going to be a European vehicle. Rivian R2 production,

by the way, the intent, production intent builds are now rolling out hundreds of them on public roads.

So if you are anywhere near normal Illinois where they're made, you may well see some R2s.

Still on track for early 2026. That's exciting. What about going

electric in a camper van? Sorry, an RV, because this is very much not a camper van. This is a big,

luxurious, well, let's face it, it's a bus. You can spend a long time on this. It's Thor Industries and Harbinger introducing a Class A

camper bus with a big old boy, a big old battery, 140 kilowatt hours. It'll do 100 and something

miles on electric alone, but it's got a range extender. And so then the fuel can take over and

charge your battery pack. And of course, the battery pack is designed to also be used when you are parked up

and camping, air conditioning, cooking, stuff like that.

And then when you go home and go back to work in the week after your weekend away in the RV,

it can, of course, provide backup power to your home in emergencies and be used that way.

Mercedes-BB production is ending when they get through the current order list of

build slots for the cars because the EQB has been out four or five years or so.

It's being replaced soon by the GLB.

A great little three-row car, that is the EQB.

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